Windows Live Mail

For those who don’t know, this is Windows Mail:

This is Windows Live Mail:

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The new big thing is email preview pane on the far right. Clicking on an email in the middle pane opens a preview in the right pane.

There is now feed reading:

(Those are the default feeds, not ones I chose)

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There is now a calendar:

This calendar syncs with Windows Live Calendar in the cloud, giving windows an online and desktop calendar without an exchange server, finally.

There is also newsgroup support:

In the bottom left corner there is now a set of buttons to switch between the different options:

This can be removed, but I like the option. There is support for multiple email addresses.

Function-wise, the buttons at the top are similar to Windows Mail. The cool thing is that changing modes changes buttons, sort of like a contextual menu:

Windows Live Mail has gained the new color scheme, but unlike photo gallery, it can be customized:

Its a lot easier to setup email accounts now. In addition, you can customize which buttons appear in what context. So for instance:

Also, an update to my previous post on Windows Live Photo gallery, it also has the option to customize the toolbar.